This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,445 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct rapid response research on the impacts of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, on civil infrastructure resilience in high-density wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities. The key objectives of this one-year award, which runs from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026,...
The Prosper Ridge Community Wildfire Resilience Project was awarded a $2,175,132 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The grant, awarded on Nov 20, 2023, supports the development and implementation of wildfire mitigation activities outlined in the community's recently updated Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Key project activities include conducting...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service awarded a $2,745,672 Project Grant under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) to the Butte County Fire Safe Council, a non-profit organization located in Paradise, California. The grant funding supports comprehensive wildfire hazard mitigation efforts, including developing and updating Community Wildfire Protection Plans, creating fuel breaks, reducing hazardous vegetation,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 to the University of California, Davis to collect, archive, and characterize residual ash, transported ash, and particulate matter during and after the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025. The key objectives are to: 1) collect and archive particulate matter samples during and following the fires; 2) quantify the concentrations of toxic elements in the samples; 3) disseminate...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $428,146 will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to study decision-making and collective action during post-fire recovery to inform rebuilding codes and processes. Specifically, the project will characterize how governmental organizations seek information and balance priorities to make rebuilding...
This is a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The $305,077 award to the University of Washington, with a subcontract to Portland State University, will fund a 2-year project titled "Assessing and Projecting Post-Fire Transitions and Reburn Dynamics in the Western Cascades." The project aims to develop new applied science for anticipating and understanding the capacity of forests in...
The University of California, Davis will use a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop wildland urban interface (WUI) fire simulation models and evacuation strategies. The research will leverage data from California's 2018 Camp Fire to simulate fire hardening and evacuation scenarios for different community archetypes through agent-based modeling, fire dynamics modeling, and evacuation modeling within a semantic framework. This is...
The $661,254 federal Cooperative Agreement award under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693) program was granted to the Butte County Fire Safe Council, a non-profit organization in Paradise, California. The award, dated August 9, 2024, supports the "Berry Creek and Feather Falls Fire Hazard Reduction" project, which aims to mitigate wildfire risks and enhance ecosystem resilience in the Butte Creek...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service awarded a $248,498 Cooperative Agreement under the Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693) program to the Butte County Fire Safe Council on August 9, 2024. This funding supports the "WILDLAND UBRAN INTERFACE FIRE HAZARD REDUCTION" project, which has a planned completion date of December 1, 2026. The Butte County Fire Safe Council, a non-profit organization focused on wildfire mitigation and community...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $1,465,295 Project Grant to Remake Talent, operating as the Firebrand Resiliency Collective, under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The grant, which runs from September 2024 to May 2029, supports the development and implementation of the Rogue Valley Integrated Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Key activities include community building, education, risk assessments, and...